Penn State
• VOLUME 11 NUMBER 21
DUTCH HERMAN
FRESHMAN COACH
Appointee a Great State Enthusiast.
Former Quarterback and Basket-
ball Star. Successful as Pre-
paratory School Coach. To
Coach Basketball
Following out the plans of the
advisory committee. Graduate Man
ager Smith has announced the en
gagement of the old State star
Burke Merkle Herman 'll to coach
Ike freshman football team and
assist throughout the year as baclc
field coach. He will also have
complete charge of the varsity
basketball team. His contract is
a period of one year.
"Dutch" Herman, for that is his
name to all except those who call
him Bismark, entered in the fall
of 1907. He early showed his
ability as a heady player and also
into a great punter. At
any other time he would have been
a great star but “Larry” Vorhis en
tered in the same class and Dutch
had to alternate with his rival. In
1911 he alternated with Miller who
was then in his freshman year. He
•was always noted as a versatile
B. M. Herman
player and sure to find an opening
to get out of a tight place. Be
cause of this ability he has been
a football pinch-hitter by
"Dick” Harlow. The 1908 Pitt
game, the 1909 Penn game and the
1911 Cornell game are notable in
stances of his ability.
He played four years of varsity
# basketball and captained the team
in his fourth year. He also coach
ed a very successful team the fol
lowing year. In taking up his work
along this line he will fill a long felt
need of an excutive coach in that
, sport.
Since graduating he has had re
markable success as a preparatory
school coach. At Wilkes-Barre he
turned out the greatest team in the
school’s history. This year he had
poor material but turned out a fair
team at Shadyside Academy, Pitts
burgh. He combines coaching
wEh teaching in which he has had
great success. It will be with
much reluctance that Shadyside
will part with him, however, a de
sire to serve his Alma Mater with a
chance to take a master’s degree
was sufficient to get him here next
year.
He is a graduate of Wyoming
Seminary where he was considered
to be their best all around athlete
With his fine personality, gentle
manly manner, executive abilty
and knowledge of sport together
with his great State Spirit we
should have many successes next
fall.
Pitt Wrestlers Confident
The showing of the Pitt wrestlers
in the Middle States championship
meet has lead their followers to be
lieve that they will win on Friday
night at the Armory. At least a
number of fast bouts are assured
for the closing meet of the present
season. The Blue and Gold have
not taken part in any intercollegiate
meet but under the tutelage of
Charles Keinecke and Collins, form
erly of Cornell, they have formed a
well balanced team.
Lamb's opponent, Jack Suther
land, is a three team man. In the
recent Middle States meet he near
ly defeated the champion, Emil
of every member of the student
Marshall. He has a record in the
discus of 125 feet and in the shot
put of 41 feet.
The showing of Jones in the Pitt
football game Thanksgiving day
promises that Yerger will have a
hard battle in the 158 pound class.
The 145 pound man is a brother
of the ColHds of Cornell who was
at one time intercollegiate cham
pion. This lighter man has much
of his more famous brother's abil
ity.
Riehl, who will wrestle in the 135
pound class, will be seen here later
on the baseball team.
Reilly, 125 pounds, won his bout
at Penn last year and has improved
considerably this year.
The meet will start promptly at
seven o’clock. Seats must be pur
chased in advance and will be sold
to seniors, juniors and faculty
members tonight at 6:30, and to the
lower classes and general public on
Thursday night and the afternoon
and evening of the meet at the Tog
gery Shop.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., MARCH 3, 1915
“HUNTING FOR PIGMIES”
Dr. Geil to Deliver Free Lecture
Saturday Night m Auditorium.
Beyond doubt one of the most
interesting, instructive and torcelul
lectures of the year will be given in
the Auditorium Saturday night by
Wm. Edgar Geil, M. A...LL. D„
F. R. G. S.
Dr. Geil is one of the lore.vost
globe trotters and explorers of the
world and his vast store of infor
mation obtained by personal con
tact with the dark cornets of the
earth makes him an authority on
primitive races and their conditions |
IT IS THE DUTY
body to vote
FOR OR AGAINST
HONOR SYSTEM
tonight in the
Auditorium at 6:30
NO MOVIES
until after vote is taken
that, to the average citizen, reads
like a fairy tale.
An extract from a letter by the
ex-president of the Chinese Im
perial university is as follows:
“After piercing the heart of Africa
and confirming the Homeric legend
of pigmies at war with snakes, if
not with cranes, he passed at a sin
gle bound to New Guinea where he
found material for many a blood
curdling picture of life among the
head hunters and cannibals of the
Southern Seas."
In the lecture Saturday Dr. Geil
will throw light on the supposedly
extinct dwarf man in a manner that
will astonish and delight his hear
ers. His high standing among the
world’s great explorers and lectur
ers well merits a full house.
Three courses have been provid
ed for those interested in the sub
ject of missions. A class in home
missions will use the “Challenge of
the Country” as a text, while the
foreign mission class will use "The
How and Why of Social Missions"
and “The Social Aspects of Foreign
Missions”. Organizations will take
place on Thursday night at 6:30
in room 121, Old Main.
Collegian.
The Hospital Benefit
There has been some doubt as to
the personnel of the cast of the
“Hand of the Prophet” which is to
be given on March 12. It is
thought by some that the play will
be presented by a company of pro
fessionals bnt such is not the case.
The chorus is made up of girls
from the Woman’s Building and
men from representatives of the
different fraternities in the Pan-
Hellenic council. The men in the
chorus will be costumed in the col
ors of their fraternities and this will
lend a touch of local color to the
play which will be in keeping with
the variegated costumes of the
New scenery is being prepared
for the production and so "uething
novel will be seen in the Isadore
Duncan curtain which will be used
for the first time on the Audrtorium
stage. Considering the elaborate
ness of the stage setting for this
play and the extensive costuming
of the cast and chorus, the manage
ment can well bespeak the patronage
of the student body. The play itself
comes highly recommended and
the cause for which it is given is
incentive enough for the faithful
supporters of college activities; yet
the management has spared no ex
pense to make this appeal in behalf
of the hospital one of full value for
the money expended.
The tickets will be on sale at
Gilliland’s Drug store beginning
Wednesday evening, March 3, at
7p. m. and continually thereafter
until the evening of the perform
ance.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes will
speak at the college on some phase
of socialism, Wednesday, March 17
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VICTORY OVER PITT
TIES UP SERIES
Great Rally at Close of Second Half
Gives Victory to Blue and White.
Varsity Played Below Form.
Score 31-28—Extra Game Satur
day at Pittsburg.
By a victory over Pitt last Friday
in the Armory, the varsity basket
ball team tied Pitt for the cham
pionship of the western section of
the Pennsylvania Collegiate league
and made necessary the playing of
another game. This will be played at
the Duquesne Garden next Satur-
day night.
The band was out at the game to
lend encouragement with the largest
audience of the year. The first
half opened auspiciously. Park
shot a foul and Wilson added two
points. A foul by Lubic and
Hastings’ field goal tied the score
but a field goal by Blakslee put
State in the lead.
For the first six minutes Penn
State played their old passing game
with remarkable success. The
crowd was in an uproar when Cap
tain Park shot the foul which made
the score 12-4.
At this point of the game Pitt
executed a couple of very clever
plays which seemed to bewilder
the State men and they lost their
coolness. Pitt tied the score and
took the lead at 15-12 before State
scored again. The half ended with
the varsity leading 17-16.
Pitt took the lead at the begin
ning of the second half when Gra
ham shot a long goal from the
field. They maintained their lead
but at no time were more than three
points ahead of the varsity.
With three and one half minutes
to play Park tied the score at 26
when he shot a foul goal. Ludic
added a point for Pitt but Jester
scored a field goal and State was
again in the lead. With one min
ute to play Park added three points
on a great shot beneath a crowded
basket and a foul goal. Pitt could
only score a foul goal before the
whistle ended the game.
State played far below her usual
standard while Pitt was without the
services of Matson. On a neutral
floor a wonderful game should re
sult. Every effort will be made to
have the team in the best possible
condition and it is hoped that a
large number of rooters will accom
pany the team.
Blaksl :e [
Park, Capt. t
Jester
Walton
Wilson
Healy
Graham
c Capt. Ochsenhirt
g Lubic
g Hastings
Field goals —Blakslee, Park,
Jester 2, Walton 2, Wilson 3,
Healy, Graham 3, Lubic 2, Hast
ings.
Foul goals—Park 13, Lubic 15.
Fouls committed —Pitt 22, Penn
State 22.
Substitutions —McCullough £or
Healy.
Referee, Taggart, of Harrisburg,
Time of halves, 20 minutes.
M. E. Society.
The Mechanical Engineeriig
society will hold its regular meeting
at 7:45 p. m. on Thursday March 4
in room 202 of the Engineering
building. V. D. Longo T 6 will
give an illustrated talk on the Keel
er Boiler.
The society invites all Sopho
more Mechanical and Industrial
engineering students to attend.